Klunster
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1951 - 220
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1951 from Jork Fruit Research Station, near Hamburg, Germany. Fruits have firm, fine flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Klunster
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering 18th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- small 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Ribbing
- strong 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Pink 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Coarseness
- fine 1
- Juiciness
- dry-medium 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 1


- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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